Showing posts with label Lea (Elizabeth Ellicott). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lea (Elizabeth Ellicott). Show all posts
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Early cooking in Ellicott City

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From hearth cooking 250 years ago to cookstoves, from beehive bake ovens to Reip ovens to ovens in the cookstoves, there were many changes ...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Kiln-dried corn meal

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Drying corn in a pan-kiln (patents by 1812, 1816; British patent 1824 at left) for corn meal was said to have been invented at the Lea own...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

James Lea grafitti at the B&O railroad station 1838

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James Lea (1816-1857) was the son of Elizabeth (Ellicott) Lea (daughter of George Ellicott), and Thomas Lea, of the Lea Brandywine mills...
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Monday, August 6, 2018

Ellicott City flood.... again

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Less than two years after the last devastating flood of 2016, Main Street was flooded again on Sunday May 27, 2018.  Within a few mile s...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Elizabeth Ellicott Lea and the first Maryland cookbook in 1845

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Elizabeth (Ellicott) Lea (1793-1858) was born in Ellicott’s mills to George and Elizabeth (Brooke) Ellicott, the son of one of the f...
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Monday, December 4, 2017

Lea's Brandywine flour mills near Wilmington Del., 1800

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The famed Tatnall and Lea flour mills in Delaware were visited by many foreigners including the Duc de La Rochefoucauld [1747-1827], who l...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Reip Bake Oven and Roaster, 1825 patent

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A Reip metal wall oven still exists in a privately owned historic home, Hickory Ridge, in Howard County.  Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, daughter G...
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Sunday, August 7, 2016

8113 Main St., to be torn down after 2016 Ellicott City flood, had connections to Elizabeth Ellicott Lea

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Elizabeth Ellicott Lea (1793-1858), whose cookbook Domestic Cookery was first published in 1845 , had ties to the shorter of the two adjoi...